Russia is ready to conduct clinical trials in Ukraine of a COVID-19 vaccine combining its Sputnik V with a vaccine developed by AstraZeneca together with Oxford University, the head of Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said on Saturday, Reuters reported.
Russia’s sovereign RDIF, which is marketing the Sputnik V vaccine...
The Moscow metro said Sunday it had hired female drivers for the first time in its recent history, following recent changes in controversial Russian legislation prohibiting women from many professions, The Moscow Times reported.
The Russian capital's transport system, which oversees the sprawling metro system, said in a statement that...
The law enabling Russian IT companies - software developers to enjoy tax relief comes into force on Friday, January 1. Particularly, it lowers the rates of insurance premiums for the industry and income tax rates, TASS reported.
A respective bill was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin into law in...
Russia’s administrative reform involving the right-sizing of state personnel begins nationwide on January 1, 2021. According to plans, it should be completed in three months, by April 1, TASS writes.
As Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin noted earlier, the government often discussed the necessity to optimize the system of management....
Total trading volume across markets on the Moscow Exchange could reach 924 trillion rubles ($12.34 trillion) in 2020, setting an all-time high, according to the Chairman of the Executive Board and CEO Yury Denisov, RT reported.
While the official results of the year have not been announced so far, the...
The coronavirus pandemic, the escalation of the geopolitical environment and the subsiding risk appetite of investors in 2020 resulted in a substantial weakening of the Russian ruble against the main currencies, TASS reports. Particularly, the dollar added 20% against the ruble in 2020, whereas the euro - around 32%.
The...
Belarus has received the first tranche of the Russian state loan amounting to the equivalent of $500mn, the Belarusian Ministry of Finance says on Wednesday, TASS reports.
"Funds of the first tranche of the state financial loan in the amount equivalent to $0.5bn were received at the account of the...
A criminal case over allegations of large-scale fraud was initiated against Russian political opposition figure Alexey Navalny, a Russian Investigative Committee spokeswoman, Svetlana Petrenko, Sputnik reports.
"The Main Investigation Department of the Russian Investigative Committee has collected sufficient data, on the basis of which a criminal case has been initiated...
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Tuesday it had worked with U.S. authorities to seize large quantities of cocaine and break up an international drug smuggling ring, Reuters reports.
In a rare statement on law enforcement cooperation between Moscow and Washington, the FSB said it had seized 330 kilograms...
The Russian Ministry of Finance plans to borrow about 3.7 trillion rubles ($50.23bn) in 2021, about 75 billion rubles ($1.02bn) a week, Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov said, as reported by TASS.
According to Siluanov, the pace of borrowing will depend on the external situation. "We will look at the...
